Use Data Validation for in-cell drop-down for selecting a plant and VLOOKUP
for the filling-in part.

See Debra Dalgleish's site for more on VLOOKUP and Data
Validation lists for entering the choices.

http://www.contextures.on.ca/xlFunctions02.html

http://www.contextures.on.ca/xlDataVal01.html

Note the section on using DV lists from another worksheet by naming the list.


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP


On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 11:20:00 -0800, chiefiofirengineerio
wrote:

I have just mastered the use of autotext in a word document. Is it possible
to do the same thing in a speadsheet. I want to be able to type in the name
of a plant and then using autotesxt pull out all the information ? conditions
I have about it and include it in a speadsheet